/tags/community-activism Community Activism en-US Copyright Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:21:09 GMT /arts-culture/2025-03-10/domestic-violence-creative-writing-classes-survivors-community The class is one in a series supporting the Redbud Writing Project’s mission to make creative writing accessible. Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:21:09 GMT /arts-culture/2025-03-10/domestic-violence-creative-writing-classes-survivors-community Abigail Celoria /race-demographics/2020-12-17/frank-stasios-fondest-shows-meet-bree-newsome-who-removed-south-carolinas-confederate-flag Activist Bree Newsome Bass gained national attention in the summer of 2015 when she was arrested for scaling the flagpole at the statehouse in Columbia,… Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:36:17 GMT /race-demographics/2020-12-17/frank-stasios-fondest-shows-meet-bree-newsome-who-removed-south-carolinas-confederate-flag Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-12-17/frank-stasios-fondest-shows-meet-bree-newsome-who-removed-south-carolinas-confederate-flag Activist Bree Newsome Bass gained national attention in the summer of 2015 when she was arrested for scaling the flagpole at the statehouse in Columbia,… Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:36:17 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-12-17/frank-stasios-fondest-shows-meet-bree-newsome-who-removed-south-carolinas-confederate-flag Frank Stasio /race-demographics/2019-12-04/race-in-films-for-the-classroom-church-and-community Do you remember watching educational movies in elementary school? Older generations might think of the teacher setting up the 16 mm projector, while… Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:04:32 GMT /race-demographics/2019-12-04/race-in-films-for-the-classroom-church-and-community Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2019-12-04/race-in-films-for-the-classroom-church-and-community Do you remember watching educational movies in elementary school? Older generations might think of the teacher setting up the 16 mm projector, while… Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:04:32 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-12-04/race-in-films-for-the-classroom-church-and-community Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /business-economy/2018-01-04/the-weird-interesting-and-vanished-world-of-activist-entrepreneurs In the 1970s, independent bookstores, local food co-ops and credit unions shaped a new consumer landscape that was as much about protest as it was about… Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:22:33 GMT /business-economy/2018-01-04/the-weird-interesting-and-vanished-world-of-activist-entrepreneurs Frank Stasio, Jennifer Brookland /show/the-state-of-things/2018-01-04/the-weird-interesting-and-vanished-world-of-activist-entrepreneurs In the 1970s, independent bookstores, local food co-ops and credit unions shaped a new consumer landscape that was as much about protest as it was about… Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:22:33 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2018-01-04/the-weird-interesting-and-vanished-world-of-activist-entrepreneurs Frank Stasio, Jennifer Brookland /health/2017-08-14/the-reluctant-farmer-meet-reverend-richard-joyner For close to two decades, Richard Joyner fought to get away from the farms of Pitt County, North Carolina. He grew up in a family of sharecroppers and… Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:00:00 GMT /health/2017-08-14/the-reluctant-farmer-meet-reverend-richard-joyner Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2017-08-14/the-reluctant-farmer-meet-reverend-richard-joyner For close to two decades, Richard Joyner fought to get away from the farms of Pitt County, North Carolina. He grew up in a family of sharecroppers and… Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:00:00 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2017-08-14/the-reluctant-farmer-meet-reverend-richard-joyner Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /race-demographics/2017-01-31/a-revolution-within-a-revolution Iris Morales was among the first women to join The Young Lords, a Puerto Rican nationalist group founded in the late 1960s that aimed to fight the… Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:17:59 GMT /race-demographics/2017-01-31/a-revolution-within-a-revolution Anita Rao, Frank Stasio